what happened in dearborn?
LOL It's an inside Michigan joke but when you get to Dearborn it is basically as if you have teleported to Iran. Arabic billboards everywhere and Blacks are not really wanted.
The city's population includes 40,000
Arab Americans.
[18] Ethnic Arabs own many shops and businesses, offering services in both English and Arabic.
[19] In the 2010 census, Arab Americans comprised 40% of Dearborn's population; many have been in the city for several generations. The city has the largest proportion of Arab Americans in the United States.
[20] As of 2006 Dearborn also has the largest
Lebanese American population in the United States.
[21]
The first Arab immigrants came in the early-to-mid-20th century to work in the
automotive industry and were chiefly
Lebanese Christians (
Maronites). Other immigrants from the Mideast in the early twentieth century included a large
Armenian-American community, who are Christian.
Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs have also immigrated to the area. Since then, Arab immigrants from
Yemen,
Iraq and the Palestinian territories, most of whom are Muslim, have joined them. Lebanese Americans are still the most numerous group.
[22][23] The Arab Muslim community has built the
Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in North America,
[24] and the
Dearborn Mosque. More
Iraqi refugees have come, fleeing the continued war in their country since 2003.
Warren Avenue has the commercial center of the Arab-American community. The
Arab American National Museum is located in Dearborn.
[25] The museum was opened in January 2005 to mark the
Arab American community's history and contributions to the
United States.
You can always catch some cacs hatin on them down there too..lol
